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Austin Slater has 40-years’ experience as an executive in the energy industry, retiring March 2020 following 18-years as President and CEO of the Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative. He formerly served as VP for Education and Training at National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) in Arlington, Virginia, and as General Manager of Tideland EMC in eastern North Carolina. Slater has served as a Board Member and Chairman of the Board of ACES Power Marketing and was a founding Member and Secretary of the National Renewables Cooperative Organization. Slater is presently Board Vice Chairman and Lead Independent Director of a publicly traded $6-billion community bank that operates in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, President of the Shepherd University Foundation, Vice Chairman of the Shepherd University Board of Governors, an instructor in NRECA’s Director Education curriculum, and is an active member of the Shepherdstown Rotary Club.

Slater has served as both Director and Chairman of the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, the Southern Maryland Workforce Investment Board, and the College of Southern Maryland Boards. He also served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Board (Baltimore Branch) and as director and Vice Chairman on the University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center board. Slater was recognized by the Maryland Chamber of Commerce as a ‘Business Hall of Fame’ recipient in 2013, and as the 2014 ‘CEO of the Year’ by the College of Southern Maryland Leading Edge Awards. Slater graduated from Shepherd College in 1976 earning a BS in business and economics. He graduated from the George Washington University in 1994 with an MBA in finance.